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The Olivier Awards dazzled London's Royal Albert Hall on April 9, and we are telling you, we are not going to stop gushing about this year's ceremony. Groundhog Day's Andy Karl accepted his award for Best Actor in New York on April 11, and Dreamgirls' Amber Riley, who garnered the Olivier for Best Actress in a Musical, finally released ...

We love you, Jonas, oh yes we do! NBC's Bye Bye Birdie star and executive producer Jennifer Lopez recently stopped by Watch What Happens Live, and of course she received a question about casting for the upcoming live musical broadcast. As previously reported, Jerry Mitchell and Alex Rudzinski will helm the project, which is scheduled to air at the end of ...

We've heard John Legend and Ariana Grande's heavenly vocals on Beauty and the Beast's titular track. Now, there's a music video of their version, complete with Grande rocking a red tulle gown, Legend on the piano and a whole lot of dancing rose petals. The video is set in the iconic ballroom where Belle and the Beast (to be ...

Broadway's brightest took center stage at this year's Academy Awards! Lin-Manuel Miranda performed his Oscar-nominated Moana tune "How Far I'll Go" with Auli’i Cravalho, who lent her voice to the titular character in the movie. The Hamilton mastermind spit rhymes while the Moana star nailed that future audition to play the Schuyler sister of her choosing. Disney's Moana was also ...

Cynthia Erivo can do it all. In the last year, she's won a Tony, run a marathon, nabbed a starring role in a Harriet Tubman biopic, and (as of last night) performed at the Grammy Awards. Hours after The Color Purple earned the award for Best Musical Theater Album, the wonder woman took the stage with fellow Grammy winner John Legend ...

Talk about a comedy king! Saturday Night Live alum Taran Killam is currently reigning as King George in Hamilton. The Today Show went behind-the-scenes with him during rehearsal and on the evening of his first performance where Killam showed off the tricks of the King George trade, like mastering the accent ("I think you just go nasally."), rocking the ...

Good luck not tapping your toes to this tune. Bobby Conte Thornton, Ariana DeBose and the cast of Broadway's A Bronx Tale visited The Today Show on January 17 and performed the ultra-catchy opening number "Belmont Avenue." In addition, the creative dream team, including scribe Chazz Palminteri, directors Robert De Niro and Jerry Zaks and lead producer Tommy Mottola ...

Tony winner and late-night king James Corden did a fabulous job hosting the 2016 Tony Awards—so fabulous, it seems, that fellow Tony winner and four-time Tony host Neil Patrick Harris felt he had to defend his honor months later. Harris, who stars in Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events on Netflix beginning on January 13, stopped by The Late ...

Broadway's The Color Purple is set to shutter at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on January 8, the same day its Tony-winning breakout star Cynthia Erivo will turn 30. Her 29th year has been a doozy: she garnered a Tony Award and a Grammy nomination for her Broadway debut, ran a marathon, sang for President Obama (twice) and went platinum blonde ...

New year, new goals, new box of tissues at the ready for watching performances from Dear Evan Hansen...sounds about right. Stars Ben Platt and Laura Dreyfuss stopped by The Today Show on January 3 to sing Benj Pasek and Justin Paul's "Only Us" from one of the most touching tuners of the season. Platt also discussed what it was ...

This is more than talent; this is genius! As previously reported, a musical adaptation of Bernice Rubens' Madame Sousatzka has its eyes on the Great White Way for a bow in October 2017. Sousatzka will star Tony winner Victoria Clark, Tony winner Judy Kaye, Tony nominee Montego Glover and newcomer Jordan Barrow. The tuner, backed by notorious producer Garth Drabinsky ...

Broadway's Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812is an out-of-this-world performance experience, and newcomer Denée Benton is luminous as Natasha. Benton stopped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on December 12 to reminisce about playing the Wicked cast recording on repeat when she was younger and discuss portraying a member of Russian nobility. "For me, being a ...

Aladdin's James Monroe Iglehart took home the 2014 Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical, and he's still heating up Agrabah! Iglehart, title star Adam Jacobs and the cast of the shining, shimmering, splendid tuner performed a never-before-seen version of "Friend Like Me" on Good Morning America on December 13, and ...

Andrew Lloyd Webber's latest hit School of Rock officially turns one on December 6 and to celebrate we here at Broadway.com are delighted to be the first to bring you this mini-documentary. Charting the show's life from its try-out at the Gramercy all the way to the Tony Awards and beyond, it has been put together by NYU film ...

Ben Platt is starring in Broadway's emotional Dear Evan Hansen this season, and as he revealed on Late Night with Seth Meyers on November 22, his "theater nerd" dreams have been in the making his entire life. Platt and Meyers took a cruise down memory lane, looking through pictures of Platt's two-person Mamma Mia that he performed with his childhood ...

Anything you want done, baby! Broadway Balances America, the special six-part series airing on The Balancing Act on Lifetime Television, continued its third season on November 21 with a special look at the new musical The Bodyguard, based on the smash hit film. Correspondent Amber Milt chats with the show's Grammy-nominated star Deborah Cox, who's leading the American premiere and ...

Prepare to get swept off your feet! After the teaser got us amped up, the first official trailer for Disney's Beauty and the Beast has arrived, and it's positively enchanting. Emma Watson stuns (and saves the day) as Belle, and we finally get a good look at the Beast (played by Dan Stevens). Lumiere (Ewan McGregor), Cogsworth (Ian McKellen) and ...

Dancing with the Stars was all about Broadway on its November 7 Showstoppers telecast. Tony winner Idina Menzel was a guest judge and also performed "Queen of Swords" from her album idina. Also on tap was two-time champion Mark Ballas—the Broadway.com vlogger and Jersey Boys headliner returned to the show to sing "December, 1963 (Oh, What A Night)" ...

Purr-fect casting! Jaws are dropping around Broadway.com HQ. Watch below as Cats' new Grizabella, Mamie Parris, sings the Tony-winning tuner's iconic 11 o'clock number, "Memory." The former Elphaba's breath control after the infamous "Touch Me" line is simply incredible. The revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's hit show is currently playing at Broadway's Neil Simon Theatre, co-starring Andy ...

Can we have this dance? Broadway Balances America, the special six-part series airing on The Balancing Act on Lifetime Television, continued its third season on November 7 with a special look at the smash hit Broadway musical An American in Paris. Correspondent Amber Milt chats with the show's Tony-winning choreographer and director Christopher Wheeldon and stars Garen Scribner and Sara ...

Leave it to certified genius Lin-Manuel Miranda to continue re-vamping the lyrics to his Tony-touting tuner. The Hamilton mastermind took the St. James Theatre stage with Tony-winning Schuyler Sister Renée Elise Goldsberry on October 17 during Hillary Clinton's "Stronger Together" Broadway fundraiser. The two rapped out the intro to the "The World Was Wide Enough," laying out Ten ...

Andrew Rannells stopped by The Today Show on October 18 to drink with Kathie Lee and Hoda and discuss his latest Broadway stint in Falsettos. The Tony nominee’s first exposure to the show was in 1992, when the original production performed on the Tony Awards. “I was at home in Omaha, Nebraska, and had very little access to Broadway,” ...

'Tis the season! The cast of Holiday Inn is currently hoofing it on Broadway at Studio 54. Bryce Pinkham, Lora Lee Gayer, Corbin Bleu and the vibrant cast stopped by The Today Show on October 18 to perform a medley of "Blue Skies" and "Shaking the Blues Away," complete with bucket dancing, strong jumprope game and Pinkham's epic juggling ...